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The human development index: some technical issues and alternative indices
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1998
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Development Studies (Infrastructure Engineering)Development TheoryDevelopment EconomicsSocial IndicatorEducationSocial StratificationHuman Resource ManagementSocial SciencesIndicator DevelopmentDevelopment Studies (Film Studies)Human FactorHuman Capital DevelopmentHuman DevelopmentApplied MeasurementDevelopmental ProgramHuman Development IndexHuman Resource DevelopmentStatisticsInternational Human Resource DevelopmentCritical Human Resource DevelopmentHuman ScienceAlternative IndicesDevelopmental SciencePsychological Measurement
The paper examines the components and structure of the UNDP's Human Development Index and reviews its criticisms in the literature. The study proposes improvements to the HDI components and a new index structure, yielding alternative indices for measuring human development. Using data from the 1995 Human Development Report, the authors test the robustness and expected properties of the proposed indices, assessing potential redundancy. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
This paper examines the components and structure of the UNDP's Human Development Index and briefly reviews the criticisms of this index in the literature. It suggests some improvements on the components of the index as well as proposing a different structure for the index itself. These result in a set of alternative indices, based on the same components, for measuring human development. Data from the Human Development Report 1995 are used to test and compare the robustness of all the measures discussed. Furthermore it attempts to establish whether the developed indices based on the components of the HDI have the expected properties of an index or whether they are ‘redundant’ as proposed by some literature. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.